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August 07, 2025
Uber Wrong
In his latest broadside against the left, Mattew Yglesias took aim at longtime critics of Uber’s blatant lawbreaking. In Yglesias’s view, these critics who range from anti-monopoly voices like Lina Khan to anti-corruption experts like our own Jeff Hauser and academics focused on financial regulation like Professor Hillary Allen, constitute a coterie of economics-hating zealots eager to make people’s lives worse.
August 05, 2025 | The Sling
On the Optimal Ratio of Engineers to Lawyers: A Review of Dan Wang’s Breakneck
The book is fascinating and surprisingly fun—with Wang’s piercing dry wit interspersed at a near perfect frequency. It’s also frustrating. While the character of the engineering state is superbly developed, the points where its American “lawyerly” counterpart is brought into the mix are more tenuous.
August 01, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 28: Less Enforcement, More Problems
In this week’s Corruption Calendar, we tackle the latest in Trump non-enforcement!
July 30, 2025
Harvard’s Former President Praises Trump’s Repression of Academic Freedom
Larry Summers has embraced Trump’s war on higher ed, backing the fascist takeover of Columbia and proposing the same thing for Harvard
July 30, 2025
The Corporations Winning Big Under Trump 2.0
As we’ve been documenting every week of Trump 2.0 in our Corruption Calendar newsletter, the second Trump administration has been egregiously corrupt. Many key appointees, as well as Trump himself, have blatant conflicts of interest and are using their positions to enrich themselves and their friends. Indeed, Trump’s cabinet contains a historic number of billionaires. Every week, more news breaks on the way corporations and the wealthy are lining their pockets due to Trump’s policy decisions, at the expense of the rest of us.
Mapping Andreessen Horowitz's Controversial Cryptocurrency Investments
In this project, we mapped out every Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) cryptocurrency investment that has broken the law or been embroiled in some kind of nefarious backroom dealing–our findings include DOJ indictments, SEC investigations, class-action lawsuits, sensitive data breaches, and more.
July 28, 2025 | The American Prospect
Elon Musk's Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists
Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?
July 28, 2025
Resources for Combating Myths about NEPA
The National Environmental Policy Act is under attack by the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, and the Republican-majority Congress. Within the Democratic party as well, there is a faction that seeks to limit the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to usher in a so-called “abundance agenda” of more expedient building.
July 25, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 27: Media Merger Madness
Also, CFPB pays for Russ Vought’s security detail while ignoring Americans’ financial security—and other tales from Trump’s swamp.
July 23, 2025 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
Trump Hands Another Victory To Cancer’s Profiteers
A Dow Chemicals facility that exploded in a ball of fire in Plaquemines, Louisiana in 2023, releasing tens of thousands of pounds of carcinogens. A leaky medical sterilization plant in a Los Angeles County neighborhood being sued by local residents suffering from breast, blood, and stomach cancers. A coal-fired power plant in Colorado whose emissions have been tied to dozens of premature deaths a year. What do all of these facilities have in common? They’re among the approximately one hundred facilities with cancer-causing emissions that President Trump has exempted from hazardous air pollution limits.
July 23, 2025 | The American Prospect
Home Insurance Executives Are Raking It In—At Your Expense
Performance-based pay packages incentivize claim denials and other harmful practices.
July 23, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Tim Dunn
Oil baron Tim Dunn is dead set on turning Texas, and the country, into a Christian theocracy. He is willing to use his billions to do just that.
July 23, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Marc Andreessen
Billionaire Marc Andreessen recruited DOGE personnel to the Trump administration and advised Trump on tech and economic policy.
July 23, 2025
Oligarchs and the Trump Admin: Sheldon and Miriam Adelson
An overview of Trump and GOP megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson.
July 18, 2025 | Watchdog Weekly
Corruption Calendar Week 26: Crypto Week Marks Washington’s Insatiable Appetite For Grift
While the House of Representatives was busy passing three industry-written pieces of legislation which all but ensure crypto’s complete capture of the federal government, Trump netted close to $100 million from sales of his crypto memecoin. There’s no doubt that the favor machine will keep whirring as long as the zeroes keep adding up for Trump and his family.